Are Democrats simply socialists?

Question

The way their records and strategy of tax the rich and pay for the poor has developed over the years, it is gone beyond "Robin Hood theory", now that they have their eyes set on the upper middle class families, I ask, what makes their agenda different from Socialist societies?

Answer 1

Yes. They keep up the mantra of "no tax breaks for the rich" but they fail to mention who they consider "rich", which is anyone who isn't on welfare and voting democrat. In any event, they are very much in favor of wealth redistribution, which is a basic tenet of socialism, along with "universal health care" (SOCIALIZED medicine), and government control of property (EPA mandates, and eminent domain if it takes property from owners to advance higher tax collections). Sounds like a socialist to me.

Answer 2

That's really an interesting perspective... However, factually wrong. If you actually look through the history of income taxes, corporate taxes, and politics (since the late 1920's) you will see that the following generalization is true...
Democrats tend to create progressive taxes that highly tax the top 25% income groups and corporations.
Republicans try to "equalize" or flatten the tax rates for those in the top 50% income groups and reduce/eliminate corporate taxes.

Hence, Republican tax policy often ends up off-setting the lose of revenue by increasing the tax burden on the lower-middle 40% group...

And so... in some respects their taxing ideology fits a socialist perspective... In as far as the taxing system is progressive and clearly taxes the upper 20% income groups at a substancially higher rate than those in the lower-middle 40%... Other than that, Democrats don't have a "socialist" agenda as understood and implremented by most European socialist democracies.

Answer 3

no more than neo conservatives are christian fascists. Labeling these groups with fear provoking names does nothing to solve the problems our society faces nor does it adequately or accurately depict the party named. Most democrats are liberals who believe that the Corporate free for all should be reigned in a bit, that people who have should help those who have not and that Christianity is one of the many religions that our Founding Fathers belonged to. Most Republicans believe the same, maybe not to the same degree. What splits the two groups is the name calling rhetoric on both sides that has nothing to do with the real problems of our country.

Answer 4

What he wrote replaced into written whilst the Democratic get mutually had made united states of america the richest united states interior the history of the international, because of the fact of FDR's social protection nets. (socialism: Public colleges, Tax paid militia, Social protection, etc) interior the 80s, the Republicans slyly made socialism and liberalism undesirable words. Many Democrats then observed the money Republicans have been getting from great employer and theory "why can i too get this great money?" And so, they bought the liberalism that made united states of america great for the money of marketing campaign donations. right now, the Democratic get mutually is the place the Republicans have been interior the 50s, and the Republicans are the place the Republican get mutually replaced into interior the 20s. (modern Laisse Faire Capitalism) So, we've gotten poorer for it. understand that Socialism isn't (as maximum Republicans prefer to think of) synonymous with Marxism or perhaps Stalinism. Socialism is in basic terms the theory the financial device could be used to serve men and females, the place Laisse Faire capitalism believes in a "unfastened industry" or that persons could be slaves to the applications of the final financial device.

Answer 5

What makes Bush's agenda of reverse Robin Hood better? The rich have had a big party, now it's time to clean up and pay the bills.

Answer 6

i like moritimer's point.. bush has a reverse robin hood plan. he taxes the poor and gives to the rich. the biggest receivers of welfare (money from the government) are big corporations that don't even need it. IMHO i think democrats just want a more fair system... of course there are always going to be those extremists.

Answer 7

No. Socialism is a system of ideologies that advocate state (or worker) ownership of property, central planning and redistribution of income. Both major American political parties generally support a free market economy. In broad terms, Democrats favor a stronger governmental role. Given the track record of recent Republican presidents and congresses, it is difficult to argue that Republicans want "less" government. They simply seem to favor "different" government.

Answer 8

Why do people always mindlessly repeat these same outdated and over-simplified talking-point ideas?

I used to believe the old mantras that conservative Republicans were about limited government and fiscal responsibility. Then G.W. Bush came along and showed me how conservative Republicans can be just as much about intrusive (PATRIOT Act, illegal wiretapping, etc.) expansionist government and reckless spending (Clinton surplus turned into our biggest national debt on record). It's not a black and white world.

Answer 9

Democrats are way far from socialists, like the Scandinavian socialists, or the French one. They are at most liberals, a little bit more then the republicans.

Answer 10

Come on now get on with it, Democrats have been in power before and the world or the US did not go to hell in a hand basket, quit whining you are an American citizen aren't you?